Flightsee – natural activity that likely occurred 2.4.20 or 2.5.20?  [ Read More ]

Photos are from the Placer Valley region between Trail Creek and the Spencer Glacier. No snow up to 1000′ but Alpine elevations appear to have good coverage and snow depth.  [ Read More ]

Flying by, noticed a large scar on the SW face of a mountain in upper 20 mile. Glide crack causing landslide? Landslide taking snow with it? It was hard to tell conclusively, but seems correlated to the warm temps we’ve been experiencing.  [ Read More ]

We hiked over to the large avalanche debris pile near the bottom of Middle Glacier behind the Williwaw Camp Ground. This avalanche occurred in mid-March from a series of storms between March 7th-24th – an storm cycle that triggered widespread avalanches around our region. Bear Valley (Portage) DOT RWIS weather station recorded 27″ of rain  [ Read More ]

The last 1/8 mile of the established trail is covered in avalanche debris that released from both sides of the valley. The entire Byron valley is full of avalanche debris from the huge avalanche cycle that occurred in mid March. A series of storms from March 7th-24th dumped 27″ of rain at the Bear Valley  [ Read More ]